Maternal condition affects the offspring testosterone concentration in early nestling period: An experimental test on tawny owls

Ethology

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 355-361

  Sasvári, Lajos ^a   Hegyi, Zoltán ^a   Péczely, Péter ^a  

^a ESZTERHÁZY KÁROLY UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; MATERNAL EFFECT; NESTLING; RAPTOR; TESTOSTERONE;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; HUNGARY;

STRIGIFORMES; STRIX ALUCO;

EID: 33645238986     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01159.x     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Adkins-Regan E. Ottinger M. A. Park J. 1995 Maternal transfer of estradiol to egg yolks alters sexual differentiation of avian offspring. J. Exp. Zool. 271 466 470.
2. Eising C. M. Eikenaar C. Schwabl H. Groothuis T. G. G. 2001 Maternal androgens in black-headed gull (Larus ridibundus) eggs: consequences for chick development. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 268 839 846.
3. Gibbons D. W. 1987 Hatching reduces parental investment in the jackdaw. J. Anim. Ecol. 56 403 414.
4. Gil D. Graves J. Hazon N. Wells A. 1999 Male attractiveness and differential testosterone investment in zebra finch eggs. Science 286 126 128.
5. Hipfner J. M. 2000 The effect of egg size on post-hatching development in the razorbill: an experimental study. J. Avian. Biol. 31 112 118.
6. Jansen F. J. Wilson M. E. Tucker J. K. Ford S. P. 1998 Endogenous yolk steroid hormones in turtles with different sex-determining mechanisms. Gen. Comp. Endocrinol. 111 306 317.
7. Lipar J. L. Ketterson E. D. 2000 Maternally derived yolk testosterone enhances the development of the hatching muscle in the red-winged blackbird Agelaius phoeniceus. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 267 2005 2010.
8. Lipar J. L. Ketterson E. D. Nolan V. Jr.. 1999 Intraclutch variation in testosterone content of red-winged blackbird eggs. Auk 116 231.
9. McCormick M. I. 1999 Experimental test of the effect of maternal hormones on larval quality of a coral reef fish. Oecologia 118 412 422.
10. Mousseau T. A. Fox C. W. 1998 The adaptive significance of maternal effects. Trends Ecol. Evol. 13 403 407.
11. Pilz K. M. Smith H. G. Sandell M. I. Schwabl H. 2003 Interfemale variation in egg yolk androgen allocation in the European starling: do high-quality females invest more? Anim. Behav. 65 841 850.
12. Reed W. L. Vleck C. M. 2001 Functional significance of variation in egg-yolk androgens in the American coot. Oecologia 128 164 171.
13. Ros A. F. H. Hirschenhauser K. Oliveira R. F. 2001 The interaction between organizational and activational effects of testosterone in the control of early aggression in birds: a comment on Sasvári, Hegyi & Péczely. Ethology 107 851 853.
14. Royle N. J. Surai P. F. Hartley I. R. 2001 Maternally derived androgens and antioxidants in bird eggs: complementary but opposing effects. Behav. Ecol. 12 381 385.
15. Sasvári L. Hegyi Z. Péczely P. 1999 Brood reduction in white stork mediated through asymmetries in plasma testosterone concentrations in chicks. Ethology 105 569 582.
16. Sasvári L. Hegyi Z. Csörgo T. Hahn I. 2000 Age-dependent diet change, parental care and reproductive cost in tawny owls Strix aluco. Acta Oecol. 21 267 275.
17. Sasvári L. Hegyi Z. Péczely P. 2001 Reply to Ros, Hirschenhauser & Oliveira. Ethology 107 854 856.
18. Sasvári L. Péczely P. Hegyi Z. 2004 The influence of parental age and weather on testosterone concentration and offspring survival in broods of tawny owl Strix aluco. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 44 306 313.
19. Schwabl H. 1993 Yolk is a source of maternal testosterone for the developing birds. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 90 11446 11450.
20. Schwabl H. 1996 Maternal testosterone in the avian egg enhances postnatal growth. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 114A 271 276.
21. Schwabl H. 1997 The contents of maternal testosterone in house sparrow (Passer domesticus) eggs vary with breeding conditions. Naturwissenschaften 84 406 408.
22. Sockman K. W. Schwabl H. 2000 Yolk androgens reduce offspring survival. Proc. R. Soc. Lond. 267 1451 1456.
23. Stamps J. 1994 Early hormones and the development of phenotypic variation in tree lizards. Trends Ecol. Evol. 9 311 312.
24. Valkama J. Korpimäki E. Holm A. Hakkarainen K. 2002 Hatching asynchrony and brood reduction in Tengmalm's owl Aegolius funereus: the role of temporal and spatial variation in food abundance. Oecologia 133 334 341.
25. Viňuela J. 1997 Adaptation vs. constraint: intraclutch egg-mass variation in birds. J. Anim. Ecol. 66 781 792.
26. Wiebe K. L. Bortolotti G. R. 1995 Food-dependent benefits of asynchronous hatching in American kestrels. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 36 49 57.
27. Wiebe K. L. Korpimäki E. Wiehn J. 1998 Hatching asynchrony in the Eurasian kestrel in relation to the abundance and predictability of cyclic prey. J. Anim. Ecol. 67 908 917.
28. Williams T. D. 1994 Intraspecific variation in egg size and egg composition in birds: effects on offspring fitness. Biol. Rev. 68 35 69.
29. Wittingham L. A. Schwabl H. 2002 Maternal testosterone in tree swallow eggs varies with female aggression. Anim. Behav. 63 63 67.